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Following the ceremonial inauguration of the IBFPL which was held in September 2018 was completed on December 12 last year. The total project cost for construction of the IBFPL is Rs 377.08 crore. Out of this, NRL’s is Rs 91.84 crore for the India portion of the pipeline, while the remaining

Rs 285.24 crore for Bangladesh portion is being funded by the Indian government as grant-in-aid, said reports.

Chief ministerHimanta Biswa Sarma inauguratedAtal Udyan, a park with an amphitheatre, atAdabariin the city, in memory of formerPrime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

The park, set up byGuwahati Metropolitan Development Authority(GMDA) at a cost of over Rs 8 crore and covering an area of 8 bighas of land, has a meditation hall, open air gym, a playground for children, murals with a dais besides an

amphitheatre with capacity to hold 250 people.

The has been constantly striving towards developing open spaces to turn Guwahati into a modern city with lots of greenery and recreational avenues and with these parks, Guwahati will have five big parks.

This project will be undertaken on the south bank of the Brahmaputra river in Guwahati and the funding will be done by the . According to reports, this project will incur a total cost of Rs 304 Cr and come

up in the Fancy Bazar area of the city, opposite the existing multilevel parking project of the GMDA. It is also said to have an all-weather working capacity meaning travellers will be able to catch ferries to multiple locations from this point.

TheAssamgovernment has withdrawn the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from one more district, West Karbi Anglong, but retained it in eight other districts bordering Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and one sub-division bordering Manipur for six more months from October 1.

The had withdrawn the Act from 23 districts and one sub-division five months back from April 1.

The eight districts where AFSPA will continue to be in force are Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Charaideo, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao and one sub-division, Lakhipur, of Cachar district of the state.

AFSPA was removed from some areas of Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh and now under Amit Shah, more recently, the

act was completely removed from 23 districts of Assam, and from areas under 15 Police stations each in Manipur and Nagaland.

TheAssam governmenthas launched the process of mapping 700 odd villages through drones, which in future could help in demarcating borders with other states in the region.
There are around 22,724 villages in Assam, of which 700 had no maps so far and so posed hurdles in executing government projects and buying and selling of land. The project, assisted by theSurvey of India, started this week at No. 1 Singimari village under Hajo revenue circle in lower AssamsKamrup district. Once the neighbouring states settle

the inter-state border dispute with Assam, drones will also demarcate the borders of frontier villages once for all, government sources said.

While the Survey of India has given the drones for the exercise, the rest of the work is being done by the Kamrup administration and Assam Survey. The size of No. 1 Singimari is 2.98 sq km, but it may take about a month to complete the survey here.
Maps of a large number of villages were prepared in the state in the 1960s and 70s through the conventional mode, but several hundred, including many in the border areas, remain unmapped. Though survey pillars are lacking in many inter-district, inter-state and international borders in Assam, the plan in the future is to erect these crucial demarcation pillars with a scientific drone survey. But a lot depends on the goodwill of bordering states, a government source said.

The groups are in ceasefire since 2012 and living

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